Word: riyadh
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ARAB UNITY. The facade (it was never much more than that) of Arab unity has been irreparably shattered by the necessity for Riyadh and the gulf states to ask for Western protection against their supposed Arab brother Saddam. The deepening division was underlined by the resignation last week of Chedli Klibi, a Tunisian, as secretary-general of the 21-member Arab League; he had been heavily criticized for balking at Egyptian attempts to get the league to authorize the sending of Arab troops to defend Saudi Arabia. Some observers speculate that the league may split in two: an anti-Saddam...
...daring cross-desert escape to the Saudi border. A cheer went up when word reached the Washington Post newsroom last week that she was safe. Through the whole ordeal, the Massachusetts-born Murphy, 43, managed to keep her Yankee sense of thrift. When she telephoned the Post from Riyadh last week, an assistant tried to switch her to foreign editor David Ignatius. Murphy demurred. "This hotel is charging too much. Have David call me back...
Last week Kuwait's crown prince told reporters in the Saudi capital of Riyadh that refugees are forming a liberation army. While any such force is unlikely to pose a threat to Iraq's occupying army, Saddam may face a challenge from within his own ranks. Many refugees tell of encounters with Iraqi soldiers who expressed embarrassment about their invasion and begged Kuwaitis to forgive them. "Some said they thought they were being sent to ) fight against Israel," says Youssef, a refugee in Saudi Arabia. An escaped Bedouin woman says, "The soldiers told us they were afraid that their families...
...hoping they would spend the money on military equipment and become the "twin pillars" of Middle East stability. (What a laugh! The Middle East military machines financed by high oil prices have been those of Ayatullah Khomeini and Saddam Hussein.) In 1986 Vice President George Bush actually went to Riyadh and begged the Saudis to reduce oil production in order to "stabilize" -- i.e., raise -- prices...
...budget summit. (Last month's crisis. Remember?) A tax on imports alone would raise half that, allowing domestic producers to keep the difference. Yet the policy of two Republican administrations -- read their lips -- has been that it is better for the money to go into the treasury in Riyadh than into the Treasury in Washington...